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Did you install Visual Studio with a Transform file? Some previous version would put the PIDKEY in when a transform was use and the digitalproductid when manually installed.

I'll wait until the war is over before deciding. not getting stuck with the other one when one dies like betamax did.

Get me a copy and I'll see if I can get it. Really, see if you can find the DigitalProductID value for it in the regsitry and tell me the full registry path to it and I'll see why it is not being found. You can use the Enterprise v2.28 and select the Settings Menu, then slect the last option to 'Search the entire registry for product keys' and it will hopefully return the value and the registry location for it.

If you have Ghost Solutions Suite 2.0 it includes everything you need to do this. The MBR to press a key and boot from the hidden partition and a read only version of ghost to read the image and apply it to the partition, no capture ability.

In what order are you connecting them? DSL -> Wireless -> wired or DSL -> wired -> wireless? Whichever is at the end should be set as a "dummy switch" and the router functionality turned off, or you need to be sure that the first device is passing through all of the DNS information to the last device. You might also try not using the "external" network port on the router and just use the normal out ports to connect everything.

If all you want is the last octet of the IP address, which will limit you to 256 machines you could do this very simply, as gunsmokingman showed though it could be even easier. If you are going to be doing this in a larger organization and you have DHCP and all the machines are registered so that the machine name is associated with the MAC address of the machine you could poll DNS and rename the machine according to the registered info.

@DigeratiPrime - Pinned and document updated. Thanks.

depends upon what version you have wether you can use anything other than the factory firmware on it. If you are not after different features just try the newest version from linksys and see if it solves your problems.

Check out https://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter for some good examples and the 'Scripting Guys' columns with detail answers to user questions.

%date:~-4% = year %date:~4,2% = month This will depend upon you default date format so you may need to adjust. %date:~-4% returns just the last four characters of %date% %date:~4,2% returns character 5 and 6 IF NOT EXIST E:\working\%date:~-4%\ MKDIR E:\working\%date:~-4%\ IF NOT EXIST E:\working\%date:~-4%\%date:~4,2%\ MKDIR E:\working\%date:~-4%\%date:~4,2%\

what format do you want %year% and %month% to return?

already taken care of. may have been a accidental double click of the submit button.

please don't double post.

The easiest would be to restart, but you can also disable it in the group policy editor. Start -> Run -> gpedit.msc navigate to: Computer Configuration -> Administrative Template -> Windows Components -> Windows Update Double click on No auto-restart for scheduled Automatic Updates installations In the settings window Choose Enabled and click OK Close Group Policy Editor

How about this, it will pull the serial number from the machine using your code, more or less, then rename the machine to the serial number: strComputer = "." Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" _ & "{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2") Set colItems = objWMIService.ExecQuery("SELECT * FROM Win32_BIOS", "WQL", _ wbemFlagReturnImmediately + wbemFlagForwardOnly) For Each objItem In colItems newComputerName = objItem.SerialNumber Next Set colComputers = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem") For Each objComputer in colComputers MsgBox "About to rename computer to: " & newComputername ErrCode = objComputer.Rename(newComputerName) If ErrCode = 0 Then MsgBox "Computer renamed correctly." Else MsgBox "Changing computer name failed. Error code: " & ErrCode End If Next To rename it to 'Company Name' + serial number change: newComputerName = objItem.SerialNumber to newComputerName = "CompanyName" & objItem.SerialNumber The lines which contain MSGBOX are for notification only and can be removed if so desired, though I would recommend leaving the failed message so you know without having to look if it didn't work.

Memory, processor, or video card problem. Also be sure to rest the BIOS to either defaults or if available Safe-settings. He should have gotten a restore cd which should also have an option to run PC Doctor diagnostics from it. Test away on the hardware. Or swap out parts with known good.

try booting from to the recovery console and run a chkdsk repair.

are they all in the same workgroup?

build a cabinet with a locked door on the front and only an access hole to the top for print retrieval. There is not much else you can do, unless you create a lock system of your own for the drawers. Loved those printers. You can't kill 5si's.

The only issues I personally have ever run into is that as by design the VM does not install the actual physical hardware drivers of the host machine. You might try it without the network and see what happens.

sxs.dll is expanded from i386\sxs.dl_ to windows\system32. Not sure why this would work in a VM and not on a real box. Do both have active network connections?

I have used 'Hard disk drive regenerator' with great success

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What have you added/removed? What steps did you take in creating your PE2 environment? Need some more details. Did you do an export? Did you prep the image? What are you using PE2 for? so we know what needs to be left behind for the functionality you require.

you can run your VBScripts from Cmdlines.txt, cscript.exe myscript.vbs But not all registry changes will take affect of remain if applied that early in the process. Some will need to be applied through runonce.